Should I remove Hollow Knight?

What percent of users and experts removed it?

6% remove it94% keep it

Overall Sentiment

Good

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How common is it?

Global Rank #22,479

United States Rank #12,541

Reach 0.0087%

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Hollow Knight

by Team Cherry

Remove Hollow Knight by Team Cherry

Overview

Hollow Knight is a program developed by Team Cherry. Upon installation, it defines an auto-start registry entry which allows the program run on each boot for the user which installed it. The main program executable is hollow_knight.exe. The software installer includes 68 files and is usually about 8.66 MB (9,085,592 bytes). In comparison to the total number of users, most PCs are running the OS Windows 10 as well as Windows 7 (SP1). While about 87% of users of Hollow Knight come from the United States, it is also popular in France and United Kingdom.

Program details

URL: hollowknight.com

Help link: support.steampowered.com

Installation folder: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Hollow Knight

Uninstaller: "C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" steaC://uninstall/367520

Estimated size: 8.66 MB

Files installed by Hollow Knight

Program executable:	hollow_knight.exe
Path:	C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Hollow Knight\hollow_knight.exe
MD5:	0a107941a1ee0ffd0c73b69f74e53489

Additional files:

Assembly-CSharp.dll
Assembly-CSharp-firstpass.dll
GalaxyPeer.dll - GOG Galaxy Peer (GOG Galaxy Peer Library)
mono.dll (by Unity Technologies) - libmono (Unity Technologies fork of mono runtime)
Mono.Security.dll (by MONO development team) - MONO CLI
mscorlib.dll (by MONO development team) - MONO Common language infrastructure
System.Core.dll
System.dll
System.Xml.dll
UnityEngine.dll
UnityEngine.Networking.dll (by Unity Technologies) - UnityEngine.Networking
UnityEngine.UI.dll (by Microsoft) - guisystem
55025-jws_tex-Hollow Knight Trainer.exe
BossRush.dll (by KDT) - Boss Rush (BOSSRUSH)
ConditionalExpression.dll (by HutongGames,LLC) - playMaker (ConditionalExpression)
crashhandler.dll (by Valve) - Steam Crash Handler Library
crashhandler64.dll (by Valve)
CSERHelper.dll - CSER Helper (Debug Helper Routines)
CSteamworks.dll (by Riley Labrecque) - CSteamworks (A C ABI wrapper for Steamworks)
d3dcompiler_46.dll (by Microsoft) - Microsoft® DirectX for Windows® (Direct3D HLSL Compiler)
d3dcompiler_46_64.dll
dbghelp.dll - Debugging Tools for Windows(R) (Windows Image Helper)
Galaxy.dll - GOG Galaxy (GOG Galaxy Library)
GalaxyCSharp.dll - GalaxyCSharp
GalaxyCSharpGlue.dll
GameOverlayRenderer.dll - Steam Game Overlay Renderer
GameOverlayRenderer64.dll
GameOverlayUI.exe - Steam
icui18n.dll
icuuc.dll
InControlNative.dll
libavcodec-56.dll
libavformat-56.dll
libavresample-2.dll
libavutil-54.dll
libswscale-3.dll
libx264-142.dll (by x264 project) - x264 (H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) encoder library)
MonoPosixHelper.dll
openvr_api.dll
PlayMaker.dll (by HutongGames,LLC) - PlayMaker (playMakerRuntime)
SDL2.dll - Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL)
Steam.dll
Steam.exe - Steam Client Bootstrapper
steam_api.dll - Steam Client API
Steam2.dll - Steam Client Engine
steamclient.dll
steamclient64.dll
steamerrorreporter.exe
steamerrorreporter64.exe
SteamOverlayVulkanLayer.dll
SteamOverlayVulkanLayer.json
SteamOverlayVulkanLayer64.dll
SteamOverlayVulkanLayer64.json
SteamUI.dll - SteamUI Dynamic Link Library
streaming_client.exe
tier0_s.dll - tier0_s Dynamic Link Library
tier0_s64.dll
uninstall.exe
UnityPlayer.dll
v8.dll

Behaviors exhibited

Scheduled Task (Boot/Login)

Steam.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 3.

Startup File (User Run)

Steam.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Steam' and executes as "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -silent.

How do I remove Hollow Knight?

You can uninstall Hollow Knight from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.

On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:

Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.

When you find the program Hollow Knight, click it, and then do one of the following:

Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).

Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Hollow Knight.

OS VERSIONS

Win 10 88%

Win 7 (SP1) 12%

WHEN IT STARTS

Auto-starting? Yes

(Found in the run registry)

USER ACTIONS

Uninstall it 6%

Keep it 94%

Windows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?

Windows 10	88.30%
Windows 7	11.70%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 10 Home	57.89%
Windows 10 Pro	19.88%
Windows 7 Home Premium	5.85%
Windows 8.1	4.09%
Windows 7 Professional	3.51%
Windows 10 Education	2.34%

Geography

87.10% of installs come from the United States

Which countries install it?

United States	87.10%
France	2.15%
United Kingdom	2.15%
Spain	1.08%
Japan	1.08%
Netherlands	1.08%
Australia	0.72%
Brazil	0.72%
Canada	0.72%
Germany	0.72%
Austria	0.36%
Switzerland	0.36%
DK	0.36%
Italy	0.36%

PC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?

ASUS	24.10%
Hewlett-Packard	15.66%
Lenovo	14.46%
Dell	13.25%
Acer	10.84%
MSI	8.43%
GIGABYTE	6.02%
Alienware	2.41%
Toshiba	1.20%
Sony	1.20%
Samsung	1.20%
Intel	1.20%
Common models
ASUS All Series	9.32%
Dell Inspiron 7559	2.54%
Dell Inspiron 5577	1.69%
ASUSTeK G701VIK	1.69%
Gigabyte B85M-DS3H-A	1.69%
Micro-Star Co., Ltd. MS-7...	1.69%

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